--- title: SwiNOG 40: Trustworthy Network Automation « ipSpace.net blog description: A brief pointer to a SwiNOG 40 presentation by Damien Garros (CEO at OpsMill) on building trustworthy network automation. The talk covers foundational... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/swinog-40-trustworthy-network-automation-ipspace-net-blog-mkcgslkao twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: SwiNOG 40: Trustworthy Network Automation « ipSpace.net blog | daily.dev og:description: A brief pointer to a SwiNOG 40 presentation by Damien Garros (CEO at OpsMill) on building trustworthy network automation. The talk covers foundational... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/swinog-40-trustworthy-network-automation-ipspace-net-blog-mkcgslkao og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MkcGsLkAO.png og:image:alt: SwiNOG 40: Trustworthy Network Automation « ipSpace.net blog og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # SwiNOG 40: Trustworthy Network Automation « ipSpace.net blog **[ipSpace.net Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/ipspace)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A brief pointer to a SwiNOG 40 presentation by Damien Garros (CEO at OpsMill) on building trustworthy network automation. The talk covers foundational principles including idempotency, dry runs, transactional changes, declarative approaches, version control, and testing. 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